I am making the transition from windoz (win7) to Ubuntu (18.04) and I can't seem to get Perl to understand path/file names. The path and the file names always have spaces and special characters (![]# etc.). I have tried every combination of quoting I could think of and nothing seems to work. I know the file exists because I copy and paste the text on the command line and do an ls -l and the file exists.

Here is some code

:
:
#my $BibleFullNames  = q{~/Aoo/01-Writer/Other/UMC~~ Changewater/[01] 
+Team Leader- Worship Service/Bible Books, Full Names.txt};
#my $BibleFullNames  = q{~/Aoo/01-Writer/Other/UMC\~\~\ Changewater/\[
+01\]\ Team\ Leader-\ Worship\ Service/Bible\ Books,\ Full\ Names.txt}
+;
#my $BibleFullNames  = q{"~/Aoo/01-Writer/Other/UMC~~ Changewater/[01]
+ Team Leader- Worship Service/Bible Books, Full Names.txt"};
#my $BibleFullNames  = q{'~/Aoo/01-Writer/Other/UMC~~ Changewater/[01]
+ Team Leader- Worship Service/Bible Books, Full Names.txt'};
#my $BibleFullNames  = q{"~/Aoo/01-Writer/Other/UMC\~\~\ Changewater/\
+[01\]\ Team\ Leader-\ Worship\ Service/Bible\ Books,\ Full\ Names.txt
+"};
my $BibleFullNames  = q{'~/Aoo/01-Writer/Other/UMC\~\~\ Changewater/\[
+01\]\ Team\ Leader-\ Worship\ Service/Bible\ Books,\ Full\ Names.txt'
+};
:
:
if (!(-e $BibleFullNames)) {
  Log2die("**Fatal err, can't find Bible names file (\"$BibleFullNames
+\")");
  }
:
:

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I would uncomment each variation, one at a time, and then run the program only to see each fail to see the file

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks,
  EigenFunctions
  OpSys: Win7 x64 Service Pack 1 Professional/Home Premium; Perl: Strawberry (v5.22.0)/ActiveState (v5.14.2)

  OpSys: Ubuntu 18.04; Perl: Perl 5, version 26, subversion 1 (v5.26.1) built for x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi (with 67 registered patches)

In reply to Ubuntu File Names with spaces and special characters by EigenFunctions

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